Jakusho Kwong

Jakusho Kwong is a successor in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. He has been teaching Zen in the United States and Europe for more than thirty years. He is the founder and abbot of the Sonoma Mountain Zen Center outside of Santa Rosa, California. In the spring of 2009, he was appointed as a Kokusaifukyoshi (international Zen teacher) of North America by the Soto School of Japan.